WHEN YOU CAN'T SERVE OUR HOME COMMUNITY EFFECTIVELY (I.E. BY MAKING YOUR PARTY COMPETITIVE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS) YOU BRING IN THE "OVER THE EDGE" MARK WILLIAMS OF THE "TEA PARTY EXPRESS?"

 

As any politically attuned Stark County citizen knows, the Stark County Republican Party is not competitive in countywide elections except for some Common Pleas Court judgships.

So rather than spend their energies reconstructing the local Republian Party left in shambles by former chairman Curt Braden,  Chairman Jeff Matthews and his mainstay political operative Jason Wise bring political trash into Stark County.

Yes, that is what the Tea Party Express is.

The Tea Party Express has hijacked the legit political concerns of many Americans and turned them into a political orgy of wacko, fringe cast of characters that in no way represent the thinking Americans including Stark Countians.

Just listen to one of the leaders (Mark Williams) on last night's CNN (360 with Anderson Cooper).

The SCPR says that Wise (and to the degree Stark GOP Chairman Matthews stood by and watched) allowed Stark County to be stained with political extremism on September 9th.

But that's what you do when you can't compete.

Change the topic.  Bring in political showmanship.  Heat up the political rhetoric.  And on and on goes the list of the non-competitive's diversionary tactis into to deflect attention from their political inadequacies on to a sideshow.

Wise and Matthews owe Stark Countians an apology for bringing this "over the edge" event to Stark County.

And if the Stark County Republican Party Executive Committee does nothing to reign this duo in, the committee members - in effect - are buying into the coarsening of Stark County politics into a hate driven milieu.

There is plenty that needs to be rectified about both political parties in Stark County and the deficient leadership they are providing Stark.

The mayor of Canton, the Stark County commissioners and other "leadership deficient" Stark County offcials must love it when the likes of a Tea Party Express rolls into town.

For them, the freak-ladened sideshow nature of the Express is the ultimate political cover.

By comparison, Healy et al don't look all that bad.

What a shame!

Borrowing the words of the highly respected voice of reason David Gergen (a CNN political analyst), Stark County continues its nosedive while the local political party opposition bathes itself in  a "bread and circuses" political soup.